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dupe - Word of the Day - Sat Oct 28, 2023

Myr

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dupe - (noun) - a person easily tricked

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There is a fine balance in writing where you want to surprise your audience and not make them feel like a dupe.

 

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Bill W

Some people are using AI to make videos to dupe us into believing something that isn't true. 

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Bill W

A person who is duped into giving a couple of friends a ride to the bank and ends up the getaway driver after a bank robbery will sometimes receive the same sentence as the actual thieves. 

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58 minutes ago, Bill W said:

A person who is duped into giving a couple of friends a ride to the bank and ends up the getaway driver after a bank robbery will sometimes receive the same sentence as the actual thieves. 

A valuable object lesson to the ideal of questioning everything.

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JamesSavik

Lawyers dupe people all the time with words that don't mean what you think they mean. It's practically their signature move.

 

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